The ECE Faculty Honors Committee solicits nominations of faculty members as candidates for recognition in six categories. Faculty colleagues only may submit nominations for these awards via the online form. The correspondence in the package should be addressed to the ECE Faculty Honors Committee. The Committee requests one pdf file containing the entire contents of the nomination package: a nominating letter, candidate résumé, and three letters of recommendation submitted via the online form. Only complete nomination packages will be accepted. Questions can be directed to Maryam Saeedifard.
This award is presented to a faculty member at the associate professor, full professor, or Regents’ Professor level whose mentoring of junior faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and Ph.D. students—in connection with teaching or research activities—over an extended period of time is judged to be exceptional. Examples of considered activities include the number of joint grants between mentors and mentees, mentees share of total funding dollars from joint grants with mentor, number of awards the mentor nominates the mentee for, number of awards won by mentees with mentor nomination/support, and placement of Ph.D. graduates in academia. This award consists of $2,000 and a plaque.
View previous recipients
- 2006: Krishna V. Palem
- 2007: Sudhakar Yalamanchili
- 2008: Joy Laskar
- 2009: Ian F. Akyildiz
- 2010: Monty Hayes
- 2011: Oliver Brand
- 2012: James H. McClellan
- 2013: Steven W.McLaughlin
- 2014: Sudhakar Yalamanchili
- 2015: Paul Steffes
- 2016: Andrew Peterson
- 2017: Sakis Meliopoulos
- 2018: Madhavan Swaminathan
- 2019: Deepak Divan
- 2020: Ajeet Rohatgi
- 2021: Not awarded
- 2022: Not awarded
- 2023: Maryam Saeedifard